Vallejo police kill armed suspect

Police shot and killed an armed domestic violence suspect in the
parking lot of a Vallejo Safeway store early this morning, Vallejo police
said.

Officers were dispatched to 142 Buss Ave. at 2:55 a.m. after
police received a report that a man was hitting and possibly choking a woman
there.

While the officers were en route, police received another call
from someone who said the man had driven to a Safeway supermarket at 709
Lincoln Road West and was parked near gas pumps there, police said.
The caller said the man had a gun, and gave police a description
of his car.

Police arrived and located the man, later identified as
44-year-old Marshall Tobin, in the parking lot of the Safeway.
Tobin was inside the car, but as police approached he got out of
the vehicle and the officers saw that he had a handgun and appeared to be
distraught, police said.

They ordered Tobin to place his hands on his head, and when he
didn’t comply, they shot him with a Taser gun, police said.
As the Taser was being deployed, Tobin allegedly reached for and
grabbed his gun, and officers fired at him with their service weapons,
according to police.

Tobin was killed by the gunfire.

A Vallejo police officer was hit by flying debris during the
incident and suffered a moderate injury, police said.
The shooting will be investigated by the Vallejo Police Department
and the Solano County District Attorney’s Office. The officers involved have
been placed on paid administrative leave, as is protocol.

This is the second fatal officer-involved shooting in Vallejo in
the past week. On Saturday, police shot and killed 17-year-old armed robbery
suspect Jared Huey on Sheridan Street after they say he pointed a gun at
them.